COMMON JUDGMENT:

1. Criminal Appeal No.523 of 2018 is filed by the appellant, aggrieved by the acquittal of accused vide judgment in C.C.No.81 of 2013 dated 08.02.2017. Criminal Appeal No.591 of 2018 is filed by the appellant aggrieved by the acquittal of accused vide judgment in C.C.No.84 of 2013 dated 08.02.2017. Criminal Appeal No.592 of 2018 is filed by the appellant aggrieved by the acquittal of accused vide judgment in C.C.No.82 of 2013 dated 08.02.2017, and Criminal Appeal No.627 of 2018 is filed by the appellant aggrieved by the acquittal of accused vide judgment in C.C.No.83 of 2013 dated 08.02.2017. Since parties in all the appeals are one and the same, they are being heard together and disposed off by way of this Common Judgment.

2. The appellant company herein is the complainant before the learned III Special Magistrate, Hyderabad. A private complaint was filed to punish the respondent/accused for the offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. The complainant company is a public limited company and the 1^st respondent/1^st accused is a partnership firm represented by its partners A2 to A7. A3 is the signatory of the cheques in question, in all the cases.